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Just a quick post to document how to use Modernizr‘s .mq() function with Bootstrap 3.

A little while ago, RaspBMC (XBMC for the Raspberry Pi) was updated to use the new Helix release (v14). This was awesome as it made thesystem much faster and probably added loads of new features which I don't use, but it also brought some compatibility breaking changes too. One of the most painful for me was the fact that it broke the Amber skin (theme). Additionally, when this became broken, the updates that were being added to Amber were not being reflected in the many Kodi repos, including SuperRepo.

Ever needed to create a dropdown (<select>) of British counties? It's a proper pain in you-know-what. Below, is a PHP array compatible with Laravel's Form::select().

Deploying via FTP is fraught with issues. When you delete a file locally you must ensure that the delete is replicated to the remote server and how can you be sure that all new files are replicated to the server? Dreamweaver does a good job of handling all of this for you but there are better ways…

This site is built with PyroCMS but as good as PyroCMS is, it does have some frustrations. The main one for me has been the contact form, which it appears has a layout which cannot be overridden or changed without hacking at core code (yuk).

Recently I was asked to work on a website with a large pop-out menu. I chose to use "Son of Suckerfish" as it is compatible with a wide variety of old browsers (and I needed to support Internet Explorer 8).

Surprisingly, the solution is pretty simple, in your admin area you need to set a cookie. This cookie can have any name and any value but must be consistent for every user.

The following is a breakdown of my current development set up.